¹ The famine was severe in the land. ² When they had finished eating the grain they had brought from <span class="ytc-term" data-term="Mitsrayim" title="The Hebrew name for Egypt, meaning 'two straits' or 'two boundaries.' Son of <span class="ytc-term" data-term="Cham" title="Means 'hot' or 'burnt.' The second son of Nuach (Noah). Father of Kush (Ethiopia/Africa), Mitsrayim (Egypt), Phut (Libya/North Africa), and Kena'an. Ancestor...">Cham and ancestor of the Egyptians. The land of bondage for the children of Yash...">Mitsrayim (Egypt), their father said to them, "Go back and buy us a little more food." ³ Yahudah (Judah) said to him, "The man strictly warned us, saying, 'You won't see my face unless your brother is with you.'" ⁴ "If yourself will send our brother with us, we’ll go down and buy food for yourself. ⁵ But if yourself won't send him, we won't go down, because the man told us, 'You won't see my face unless your brother is with you.'" ⁸ Yahudah said to his father Yisra'el (Israel), "Send the boy with me, and we’ll leave right away so that we may live and not die—us, yourself, and our little ones too." ¹¹ Their father Yisra'el said to them, "If it must be so, then do this: take some of the best fruits of the land in your bags and carry a gift down to the man—a little balm and a little honey, some spices and myrrh, pistachios, and almonds." ¹⁴ "May El Shaddai (God Almighty) give you mercy before the man, so that he may release your other brother and Binyamin (Benjamin) to you. As for me, if I lose my children, I lose them."